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Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck
CENTERstage Productions is proud to present the musical Mary Poppins, a musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film. Original music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman, book by Julian Fellowes, with new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Co-created by Cameron Mackintosh. Directed by Duane Joseph Olson. Musical Direction by Russell McCook. Choreography by Maria Coppola with Haley Swetz.
The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family members how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren’t the only ones upon whom she has a profound effect. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that “Anything can happen if you let it.”